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"Penteo brought some 30 year old Prince Tui Teka recordings into the modern world when we upmixed them to 5.1 surround for the film "The Dark Horse". We also tested Penteo against other competitor upmixers and none of them were as pleasing as Penteo. Penteo's simplicity of use and the superb sound quality were very noticeable and the crew were very happy with the outcome, Penteo is our go-to upmixer on film projects."
Toby Lloyd, Sound Recordist, Park Road Post Production Ltd, New Zealand

"For me, Penteo is a very useful tool. It really makes you look good – I wouldn’t do another film without it."
Steve Maslow, Oscar-winning Re-recording Mixer, Warner Bros.

"I was amazed at Penteo’s quality of Audio Manipulation from Stereo to 5.1 Surround. Unlike alternative more complex plug ins which use delays & phasing s to generate the up-mix, Penteo’s surround upmix from stereo sounds much more natural & maintains the frequency & tonality of the original mix, with very impressive results. The controls are very user friendly & speed up achieving optimum results. I had no hesitation in installing Penteo for our facility here at Factory."
Ben Firth, Sound Engineer / Head Of Technical Support, Factory Studios, London, UK

"Because of the historical nature of the “Live from the Met” recordings, it is imperative that we not alter the sound when up-mixing to surround, and that’s why we use Penteo."
Ken Hahn, Co-Owner & Supervising Sound Editor, Sync Sound, New York

"What’s important is how Penteo keeps the integrity of the 2-track file, isolates the center channel just right, generates the interesting and isolated surround channels, and keep the bass tight. Penteo is the up-mix plugin for me when I’m mixing."
Oscar Winning Sound Designer Steve Pederson, Warner Brothers

"The Penteo 7 Pro Suite retains all of the flexibility of Penteo 4 Pro, along with the intuitive GUI, but adds the option to upmix to 7.1 and to use AudioSuite too. We have Dolby Atmos on our stage and the ability to fill the 7.1 Bed from a stereo track is fantastic. The Plug-In allows for separate control of the side surrounds and the rear surround levels. This is particularly handy in Dolby Atmos where the surround speakers used by the Bed are full frequency. Now that the surrounds have as much weight as the screen speakers it is important to have control of that energy off the screen in case it becomes overwhelming. To create such an immersive 7.1 sound field from a stereo is incredible. I’m looking forward to using Penteo 7 Pro Suite on our next Dolby Atmos mix."
Adam Daniel – Re-Recording Mixer, Point1Post, London, UK

"We've used the Penteo plug-in as a creative choice to feature music we could only get the stereo elements for. It creates a fantastic ‘True surround’ spatial experience without sacrificing the transient and dynamic ‘punch’, of the original recording."
Michael Babcock – Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer at Warner Brothers Studios

"I’m really excited about the release of Penteo 7 Pro. With the extended range of the fader controls, I’m able to get a better balance of the material. I can pull back on the surround channels so they provide a presence to the front. Or I can push the surround channels on certain stems and bring them out in the room more. The addition of Audiosuite versions for Pro Tools has been a big help. If I decide to keep the plugin settings static and not automate any parameters for that cue, I’ll Audiosuite it. The workflow to go from stereo to surround is very fast and it helps with archiving since you now have a surround version of the cue if you ever need to go back to the project and don’t have your ilok with you. Another bonus, there’s no longer a processing delay in the path."
Tom Marks, Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros.

"Penteo is doing something fundamentally different. Each channel Penteo produces contains a remarkable amount of discrete information, allowing me tremendous control of the sound field. I can even push and pull the internal balance of the music to work better with the image and with the other sounds in the mix. A great experience."
Pete Horner – Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer at SkySound

"I use Penteo to up mix the stereo source music for the FX Series 'The American's' and found it to be the best stereo to 5.1 and LCR up-mixer. Penteo's 5.1 to stereo compatibility makes it unique: it addresses all the issues of up- and down-mix of stereo music. Every artist that I have worked with, from Rock to Opera, who has heard Penteo have loved it. It is my go-to up-mix plug-in."
Ken Hahn – Co-owner of Sync Sound, Inc and Digital Cinema, LLC

"I have found Penteo to be the best available plug-in to derive 3 channel (L,C,R) and 5.1 channel audio from original stereo music mixes. It's processing remains faithful to the original music's sound staging, imaging, and timbre. The most recent use was for music in the "Sound City" documentary."
Gary Summers – Oscar-Winning Re-Recording Mixer

"We've hammered the Penteo plug-in and it sounded awesome, so much so that I used it on the full 'Hunted' series for Cinemax. Penteo outshines all the other methods I've heard and used to up-mix stereo to 5.1, because ONLY Penteo makes you feel that you are just simply enveloped in the 'music' rather than in DSP of some kind - and for me this really is THE big thing."
Nigel Heath – Founder and Managing Director at Hackenbacker Audio

"We started playing the films first cue and by the end we were all completely sold on Penteo – we decided to use Penteo on every cue in the film! The imaging and detail that were extracted from the stereo took the sound to a whole new level without sounding gimmicky. To then retain the quality of the original mix on the stereo fold down was incredible. When you read about some Plug-Ins you wonder if there is an element of the Emperor’s New Clothes. However this Plug-In is the real deal and it will be used on every one of our projects in the future."
Adam Daniel – Re-Recording Mixer, Point1Post, London, UK

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"I was amazed at Penteo’s quality of Audio Manipulation from Stereo to 5.1 Surround. Unlike alternative more complex plug ins which use delays & phasing s to generate the up-mix, Penteo’s surround upmix from stereo sounds much more natural & maintains the frequency & tonality of the original mix, with very impressive results. The controls are very user friendly & speed up achieving optimum results. I had no hesitation in installing Penteo for our facility here at Factory."
Ben Firth, Sound Engineer / Head Of Technical Support, Factory Studios, London, UK

"I quickly realized that Penteo does something different as it gave me a clear, immersive 5.1 upmix without the washed-out phased sound I am used to hearing from other plugins. I`m mixing an HBO Original Series and the open title uses a 1970’s stereo track – within minutes of using Penteo, I had a very pleasant 5.1 mix which made the song sound like it was originally created that way!"
Ricardo Cutz, Sound Editor/Re-Recording Mixe & Owner, 106db Estudios, Brazil

"I'm working constantly on short films, before Penteo, the surround upmixing process was very time consuming for me. With an intuitive interface and great presets, Penteo allows me to upmix instantly it sounds great! No phasing issues, no artifacts, only a clear and well balanced upmix. In addition, the support from guys from Penteo is excellent, which for me, represents a very important factor."
Mirza Tahirovic, Studio Chelia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

"I’m really excited about the release of Penteo 7 Pro. With the extended range of the fader controls, I’m able to get a better balance of the material. I can pull back on the surround channels so they provide a presence to the front. Or I can push the surround channels on certain stems and bring them out in the room more. The addition of Audiosuite versions for Pro Tools has been a big help. If I decide to keep the plugin settings static and not automate any parameters for that cue, I’ll Audiosuite it. The workflow to go from stereo to surround is very fast and it helps with archiving since you now have a surround version of the cue if you ever need to go back to the project and don’t have your ilok with you. Another bonus, there’s no longer a processing delay in the path."
Tom Marks, Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros.

"We just upgraded to a new Avid S6 Console in our main dubbing stage and will now be using Penteo to up-mix to 5.1 surround and restore my last 20 years of LtRt mixes as we transfer them to new DCP masters. I have tried a lot of surround upmixers but Penteo was the best sounding & easiest to use - Penteo is my favourite upmixer for all my stereo music stems."
Stephan Konken, Owner of Konken Studios, Germany

"I have been using Waves UM225/226 for my music upmixes for some time but after reading about Penteo, I decided to try it out. Big Mistake!!! Now I have to buy it…Seriously, Penteo is absolutely amazing and it really has moved my surround mix up to another level. Beautiful. I’m also going to convert my own SFX library from stereo to surround using Penteo."
Martin Hennel, Lecturer of Sound Design, University of Malmö & Sound Designer, Payola Productions, Sweden

"Penteo's surround upmix quality and perfect fold back to stereo is truly amazing for broadcasters.“And I really appreciated Penteo’s fast and personalized customer support which really made our installation easy."
Raul Oropeza, Audio Engineer at Televisa’s Post Production Center in Mexico City

"Penteo 7 Pro’s non-LFE bussed solutions for LCR, Quad, 5.0, and 7.0 have come in handy for musical score, sound design, and ambiences where you know that you’re not going to need a LFE channel. In Film & TV mixing, we use a lot of busses in Pro Tools. By losing the .1 on several stems, it helps keep my bus count from hitting the limit and really speads my workflow."
Tom Marks, Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros.

"Students spend a lot of time crafting amazing surround mixes with the dialog and effects elements that they create. However, they often get only stereo mixes of music from composers. Penteo has allowed them to bring their music stereo stems up to 5.1 in a really amazing way - making the final mixes even more immersive and engaging for audiences at screenings."
Andrew Halasz, Associate Professor, Cinema Arts, Point Park University

"After trying Penteo, I was really impressed by its natural sound and realised how it could be used in many applications, from upmixing a stereo song to instantly spread it around a 5.1 system, to creating a 5.1 mix for audio post. The interface is easy to use and the controls allow you to hear exactly what is going on in the mono and stereo field. I could see the instant benefit of it and will now use it to provide an additional 5.1 mix of future assignments in order to hopefully impress the tutors and gain extra marks!"
Tom Dalton, Sound Design Student, Northbrook College, UK

"I have been using Waves UM225/226 for my music upmixes for some time but after reading about Penteo, I decided to try it out. Big Mistake!!! Now I have to buy it…Seriously, Penteo is absolutely amazing and it really has moved my surround mix up to another level. Beautiful. I’m also going to convert my own SFX library from stereo to surround using Penteo.""
Martin Hennel, Lecturer of Sound Design, University of Malmö & Sound Designer, Payola Productions AB, Sweden

"I have used Penteo in all of my school projects this year and it has really brought the mix to a whole other level! J The simple layout makes it incredibly easy to use and make the most out of my mix. Whether it is music or different ambiances, the Penteo Upmixer does a fantastic job of spreading the sound."
Christina Gonzalez, Sound Design Student, Point Park University

"Because our students maintain such a tight semester based Post-Sound schedule in mixing their films. Penteo allows them to work longer on their stereo mixes. Then with a few clicks of the mouse up-mix to a 5.1 surround mix for presentation at our end of the semester screenings. And for students who wish to tackle doing a more traditional 5.1 surround mix, Penteo allows them to up-mix their stereo music stems to 5.1 for inclusion into their final surround mixes."
Professor Kurt Daugherty (MFA), School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

"Penteo was a life-saver for a feature film I just finished. We had a scene that involved Muddy Waters playing live in a concert hall, using a live stereo recording from the 1980's. Penteo’s hard centre setting gave us the opportunity to get close to the singer as we wanted and even lower the level of the voice without lowering the rest of the music. I love Penteo 7 Pro’s latency-free Audiosuite capabilities and 7.1 upmix."
Gert Janssen, Sound Designer & Owner, Sound@Work Studios, Belgium

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"The Penteo 7 Pro Suite retains all of the flexibility of Penteo 4 Pro, along with the intuitive GUI, but adds the option to upmix to 7.1 and to use AudioSuite too. We have Dolby Atmos on our stage and the ability to fill the 7.1 Bed from a stereo track is fantastic. The Plug-In allows for separate control of the side surrounds and the rear surround levels. This is particularly handy in Dolby Atmos where the surround speakers used by the Bed are full frequency. Now that the surrounds have as much weight as the screen speakers it is important to have control of that energy off the screen in case it becomes overwhelming. To create such an immersive 7.1 sound field from a stereo is incredible. I’m looking forward to using Penteo 7 Pro Suite on our next Dolby Atmos mix."
Adam Daniel – Re-Recording Mixer, Point1Post, London, UK

"Penteo was a life-saver for a feature film I just finished. We had a scene that involved Muddy Waters playing live in a concert hall, using a live stereo recording from the 1980's. Penteo’s hard centre setting gave us the opportunity to get close to the singer as we wanted and even lower the level of the voice without lowering the rest of the music. I love Penteo 7 Pro’s latency-free Audiosuite capabilities and 7.1 upmix."
Gert Janssen, Sound Designer & Owner, Sound@Work Studios, Belgium

"When I do a Dolby Atmos mix, I’ve come up with a nice workflow for mixing the score if I only have stereo stems. I’ll create a stereo bus that the source tracks are assigned to. I’ll create two stereo aux tracks with that bus as the input to both. The first aux track will get a Penteo stereo-to-7.1 plugin and be bussed to the 7.1 Bed. The second aux track will get a Penteo stereo-to-7.0 plugin followed by a 7.0 surround reverb. Dial in the reverb settings and adjust the wet/dry control to taste. I send the output of this track to six mono Atmos object tracks that are panned overhead. The center channel output of the track is not used. I’ll adjust the settings for both Penteo plugins and mix the overhead channels into the 7.1 Bed."
Tom Marks, Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros.

"I’m really excited about the release of Penteo 7 Pro. With the extended range of the fader controls, I’m able to get a better balance of the material. I can pull back on the surround channels so they provide a presence to the front. Or I can push the surround channels on certain stems and bring them out in the room more. The addition of Audiosuite versions for Pro Tools has been a big help. If I decide to keep the plugin settings static and not automate any parameters for that cue, I’ll Audiosuite it. The workflow to go from stereo to surround is very fast and it helps with archiving since you now have a surround version of the cue if you ever need to go back to the project and don’t have your ilok with you. Another bonus, there’s no longer a processing delay in the path."
Tom Marks, Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros.

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